2. Column Store Indexes: will be extended to be created with Clustered Indexes as well.

3. Hekaton & Polybase: will be major ingredients in SQL Server vNext by 2014-15.

4. SQL Server version Next: will use Hekaton for its OLTP database to take database objects into in-memory and “memory optimize” tables, thus challenging SAP-Hana and Oracle much hyped Exadata soluition.

5. SQL Server 2012 PDW: (Parallel Data Warehouse) will be using Polybase to interact between PDW and Hadoop clusters.

… I’ll be discussing more about these things in next posts, so keep tuned!!!